Six famous men discuss frankly their depression and what helped them to feel better again

David BaddielComedian, novelist and TV presenter
The single thing that most helped me to control depression was having
children. Doesn’t work for everyone, and not necessarily as easy to get hold
of as antidepressants, but they are brilliant for forcing you out of
self-absorption. I was actually given a piece of advice years ago, in some
self-help book, which I thought was good, but it took me a long time to
apply it to myself. It was: “Anxiety is an emotion, not a mandate.” Or to
put it another way, the fight-or-flight response, which is what anxiety
kicks off,